With SeedChange, you can help farmers live better lives and grow healthier food, using sustainable farming techniques that preserve seed diversity.
“I like organic production. You don’t need much, you just need to know how to manage it. Now we have a healthier way of life.”
A family farmer in Honduras discusses COVID, hurricanes and an incredibly difficult growing season in this Q&A.
Seed savers are key to communities’ food security and food sovereignty.
“I don’t worry that there are no vegetables in the market because I produce what I need.”
In May, we turned to SeedChange supporters to raise emergency funds for Nicaragua.
Tomas Pinto grows an astonishing blend of different foods in a very small area.
Terraces help prevent landslides and ensure hillside farms have moist, happy soil.
The world lost 75 per cent of its crop diversity in the last century. But farmers in Canada are working to reverse the trend.
“Not only have I gained a lot of knowledge, but I’ve also become much more emancipated as a housewife.”
Thirty-three per cent of the Earth’s soil is already degraded – and as much as 90 per cent could become degraded by 2050.
“Nothing would be possible on this land without the water.” Support a farmer with the gift of water this Giving Tuesday.
The family’s small plot of land, perched 2,500 metres above sea level, was missing something crucial: water.
With the average farmer being 54 years old, who will grow our food, when today’s farmers retire?
When he was 12 years old, Owen Bridge had an encounter that would change his life.
Youth cooperatives give young farmers the support they need to flourish. And seeds give them hope for the future.
Caroline Chartrand saves the seeds Métis people in southern Manitoba saved for generations.
Loïc Dewavrin is a grain, soy and oil seed farmer – and a seed saver on a massive scale.
Climate change makes growing corn in parts of Central America near impossible. So these farmers are turning to something else.
Fanta is a mother of eight, grandmother to 13 and guardian to one very useful grain that everyone had thought lost for good.
“Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that farming was my thing to do. What I liked most was being in the field.”
Women farmers in Honduras just launched a new microenterprise specializing in all things sesame!
This corn can literally stand up to hurricanes.
Here’s how agroecology has been part of the shift to diversified food systems in countries where SeedChange works.
Did you know Canada does not produce enough vegetable seed to meet farmers’ needs?
Herlinda is transforming her community’s understanding of gender roles.
In Honduras, it’s usually men who own land and manage crop sales. But Jeidy always dreamed of running her own farm.
Jit is an role model for his fellow farmers. He shows farmers what’s possible when you go organic.
One of the most valuable resources available to farmers is simple yet often overlooked: other farmers.
Meet Jeidy, an incredible coffee grower.
Then and now: for more than a decade, Isidora Garcia has been doing amazing work around sustainable agriculture in her community.
“I cannot spend a day without seeing my garden.”
A village health worker is observing significant improvement in health conditions of the children in her village.
When you support farmers, good can grow, multiply and yield abundance. The proof is in the field.
